The Bnei Menashe are a community of around 10,000 people from the Kuki, Mizo and Chin tribes of northeast India who believe they descend from one of the Bible's ten lost tribes.

In approximately 722 BCE, the Assyrian king Sargon II conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and deported its ten tribes ...

A community from north-east India, the B’nei Menashe call themselves descendants of Manasseh, linking their identity to a lost biblical tribe.

The B’nei Menashe of Manipur and Mizoram believe they are the descendants of one of the 'lost tribes' of Israel. Around 250 members of the community landed in Tel Aviv on Thursday under an Israeli ...

Over 250 Indians of the Bnei Menashe community landed at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Thursday under the Israeli government’s Operation Wings of Dawn. The Bnei Menashe, who claim to be one of ...

The aliyah of hundreds of members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India, completes a long and meandering ...

NEW DELHI – A journey that spans centuries, continents, and contested memory reached a new chapter on April 23, when more than 250 members of the Bnei Menashe community from India landed at Ben Gurion ...

Members of the Bnei Menashe (Sons of Manasseh) community from India wave Israeli flags as they arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, on April 23, 2026. AFP Over 250 Bnei Menashe from ...

The group landed at Ben Gurion Airport under a special government initiative aimed at facilitating their return to their ancestral homeland.